[gbcdoj]

Why is the presider's chair in the central place of honor instead of the tabernacle? ... Why has the sacrificial altar been traded-in for a table?

That's not a defect of the Novus Ordo.

[ninenot]

That wouldn't be the Church of St Agnes in St Paul would it?

[ultima ratio]

"That's not a defect of the Novus Ordo"

It's part of the package--together with Communion in the hands, standing for Communion and cutting back on genuflections. Bottom line: the Mass has been de-sacralized effectively by the bishops. It walks like a new religion, it talks like a new religion--it must be a new religion. Pope doesn't seem to mind. Protestant, Catholic--what difference does it make?